With regular hearing of matters beginning, on Monday (July 2), with the end of the Supreme Court’s summer vacation, the issue of delays in judicial appointments and its effect on dispensation of justi...
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Nearly a week after the Delhi High Court stayed the controversial housing project in south Delhi, the National Green Tribunal on Monday (July 2) directed that no tree...
The country's near five-year-long wait for an anti-graft ombudsman – the Lokpal – may soon end with the Supreme Court setting a 10 day deadline for the Centre to inform it about a time-frame within wh...
Above: Mohammed Shahabuddin (file picture)
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 2) sought reply from the Bihar government on the petition filed by gangster Mohammed Shahabuddin challenging his convict...
As the Supreme Court re-opened, on Monday (July 2), following its annual 44-day-long summer vacation, Chief Justice Dipak Misra expressed his displeasure at the controversial but reformist petition ch...
The apex court on Monday (July 2) dismissed a petition challenging the appointment of KV Chowdary as Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) and TM Bhasin as Vigilance Commissioner.
The bench of Justice...
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Coming to the rescue of those accused, courts have said they cannot be held responsible for the acts of the weak-minded
~By Kunal Rao
It is always the...
The Gogoi Factor
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s statement not to doubt the government’s intention in selection of the next Chief Justice of India, and his clarification that the choice of who s...
Delhi HC on Thursday (June 28) extended the parole for two more weeks to former congress politician Sushil Sharma, who is serving life sentence in the infamous 1995 Tandoor Murder Case. Earlier, he wa...
RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister, on jail term for his role in multiple fodder scam related cases, is reportedly suffering from a slew of ailments
The Jharkhand High Court, on Friday (June 2...